She came back from the job interview with a job offer in hand. As I
talked to her about the student work position on our college campus, she
mentioned that her new boss told her that she would be expected to wear
makeup at her job. While I knew that women often wore makeup to work, I
had never been required to wear it to work. I felt a little upset for
my friend who sat through being told by a man that she — a young, pretty
woman — had to wear makeup while men who worked in the same workplace
had no such requirement.
Up to this point it had seemed normal to me that one would choose to
wear makeup in a professional or formal setting, but when it was imposed
on my friend I started to feel that there was a problem with it. With
so many women coming out with their stories and accusations of men
treating them with impropriety, we need to dig deeper into the causes of
this problem. The expectation that women use cosmetics is just one of
many contributing factors our society’s tendency to reduce women to
objects to be used rather than human persons to be loved.
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